Two sows and 18 piglets were saved six months ago by local firefighters battling a fire on the property of farmer Rachel Rivers, the BBC reported. After the animals were butchered, Rivers gave the station a thank you gift of sausages made from the animals.

"I gave those animals the best quality of life I could ever give until the time they go to slaughter and they go into the food chain," she said.

"You do feel sad at the end of it ... but to bring them down for [the firefighters] was a good way of saying 'thank you,'" Rivers said.